Lorelei bid goodnight to the Headmaster, with tears in her eyes. 'So now he knows...everything. Not that he didn't before, I swear the man knows things before they even happen.' She trudged on through the halls, head hanging down, lost to her thoughts. None of them being too happy at the moment, as nothing was seemingly set to go right.
She was sure Remus was mad at her, as she had accused Sirius of being the one to give the amulet to Angelique. Not that she really believed that, it was thrown out there in the heat of the moment, when Remus had accused Severus. A sigh escaped the girl, 'And I know Severus wouldn't do anything to bring another werewolf into being.' Another sigh, 'Quite the opposite is true I would say.' Nausea threatened to take hold once more, and she placed her hand on her stomach. 'I don't know...I still don't know.'
"So how much trouble are the werewolf lovebirds in tonight?" Severus's voice woke Lorelei from her walking daze. Looking up she frowned, 'He wouldn't have, would he?' Severus looked at her in that same intent way he had, then answered her unspoken question. "No. I wouldn't and I didn't."
"I..." she paused when she realized he'd answered without it being asked. "How did you?"
Severus half-smirked, half-smiled, "I've told you, I've got my own secrets."
"So you do." Lorelei replied with a sigh, "Some of them mine."
"Which I have kept well, have I not?" Severus asked. Lorelei nodded. "But the time is growing quickly to a decision having to be made. You are pushing the limit, if you are going to want my help."
Lorelei bit her lip as she regaurded the boy before her. 'What if I choose not to take your help?' the question she really wanted to ask, covered by the only other one she could come up with. "How much more time do I have?"
Severus held up a hand, getting a thoughtful look, as he counted off two fingers, "I'd say about another month."
"That little time?" Lorelei chewed nervously on her lip.
"Let me venture a guess, and quit wasting both of our time." Severus replied coldly. "By the time you decide to let me help, it will be too late. And that is how you want it. So let's just quit the game here and now."
"I-I'm scared." Lorelei whispered.
"Do you want to be responsible for the destruction that could be caused." Severus asked, turning and starting down the stairs to the dungeons. "Much worse than Angelique and the amulet I would guess."
"Why would it be any worse?" Severus just shook his head. "I don't want to be..."
"Like your mother." he finished her thought, as she caught up with him on the stairs.
Lorelei shot him a cold glare. "How much do you know?"
"Only what you allow me to."
"I've told you nothing of my family, or of...you just...guess." Lorelei replied.
Severus raised an eyebrow at her. "Hardly."